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“The reason we had blankets all around her was that she was in the corner of the ward and there was a draft because of the automatic doors into the A&E where the paramedics come in and they would open.

“She would have been having manic episodes, it was hard to calm her.

“There was a lot of elderly people there and they weren’t being afforded much dignity.”

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Dee said her mother is now on the geriatric ward and is currently waiting on results.

People took to social media to vent their anger at the horrendous situation Gladys was left in.

On twitter, one user poster: “The politicians are only the face of running the country a brick wall of resistance in the form of the civil service running the departments is the real problem they obstruct change.”

While another said: “This is normal. I have seen this so many times in the Mater A&E.”

Another wrote: “Health and housing have left Irish people with no diginity.”